oui oui oui... TODAY is the LAST day to contact Fifi about HER SPECIAL AMAZING dog portrait rate... YOUR dog can be captured and treasured like these furry faces...

J'adore painting!!! oooh la la doggies are FUN to paint... annnndddd YOUR doggie painting could be on the COVER of a 2012 Calendar... oui oui oui... if Fifi has painted YOUR dog or if YOU have her paint YOUR dog... she can put YOUR dog on the cover just for YOU... link to CALENDARS in the sidebar!

I REALLY tried to leave Paris... I left the FABuLOUS balcony... wellllllllllllllllllllllllll.... only long enough to find another one suitable for Beverly's PINK group and my new friends at Pinkalicious...

I soooooo HOPE this is NOT a week of "ooops" ,,, BUT here it is... I was getting calendars to together to be printed and packaged and wellllllllllll... I notice one of the cafés was on the 2011 Café Calendar... soooo QUICKLY I painted a sketch I had done awhile back... sooooo NOW this will be on the calendar...

sooooo... HERE is the NEW Completed Collection... and oooops AGAIN...
I've decided not to use the above painting... BUT the painting is AVAILABLE HERE!

There is a LINK in my sidebar to purchase this 2012 CALENDAR and LINKS for other themes!!!

Don't forget to visit Reading is Fashionable...
there is a NEW GIVEAWAY
oui oui oui... a NEW book... actually 2 copies to be given away!!!!
"Bonjour, Happiness" Secrets to Finding YOUR Joie de Vivre
written by author Jamie Cat Callan

When I first sketched this painting... I thought I would use it to talk about Book Clubs... but after reading Hidden in Paris by Corine Gantz... I thought it would be PARFAIT for the three women in the book...

Soooo when it came to colour... I thought the women should all be in shades of PINK to show they are similar... different book subjects to show they're differences ... and of course soooo EVERYONE would know the setting... the Eiffel Tower out the window!

NOW... YOU ask... what is Hidden in Paris about...

Three women running away from their lives
become unlikely friends in a beautiful house in the heart of Paris.
Lost in France, a country she mistrusts, among French people she hardly
understands, Annie has trouble venturing away from home since the death
of her husband. And since home happens to be a small jewel of a house
nestled in the heart of Paris, why would she ever want to? But when
bankruptcy threatens her beloved house, her one anchor in life, Annie
has no choice but to find renters, and quick. Leave it to someone
socially phobic to phrase a want ad in all the wrong ways. With
shimmering promises of ‘Starting over in Paris’ –– a concept she has no
intention of applying to her own life––Annie attracts tenants with the
kind of baggage that doesn’t fit in suitcases. A long-legged,
cool-headed ex model (everything Annie is not) on the run from her
abusive husband, a frail young woman harboring a possible death wish, a
mysterious French artist, and an infuriating blue-blooded French man
soon threaten Annie’s way of life in ways she never anticipated. But
when Annie finds herself reluctantly yet actively engaged in the rescue
of her tenants, she discovers that she might just save herself in the
process. (synopsis via HERE)

Oui oui oui... it is the time of year to celebrate the Eiffel Tower 2012 Calendar...

and where else would we sit but at one of these Parisian 2012 Calendar Tables ...

Anddddd... these are BOTH AVAILABLE in Fifi Flowers' SHOP NOW... right off and get one for YOU and a friend... PERFECT GIFTS!!! Here are TWO more Parisian tables that did not make it into the calendar BUT are AVAILABLE as ORIGINAL PAINTINGS...

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